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National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: A person is entitled to resign if he or she wants to and that is fair enough. That is what the Minister is saying but in the period prior to Mr. Quinn's resignation on 7 August, from January of this year, did he raise issues of concern relating to cost controls or governance in the context of procurement? Did such concerns pass the desk of the Minister for Health or the Minister for...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I will ask one more question as I have one minute left. In terms of private patients having access to the hospital's laboratory and diagnostic facilities, will that be transparent too?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. McMahon very much. One of the reasons we were very keen to ask Mr. McMahon to come into the committee was because of his experience over the last 20 years to 25 years. It is a damning indictment of one State organisation turning the blind eye when it was needed. The key time was in 2000, when Mr. McMahon was taking his case and when that group, which included representatives of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Yes, and that is where this collusion started. It probably was not a deliberate collusion. It was probably just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: That is a good clarification and I thank Mr. McMahon. I want to ask Mr. McMahon about the relationship between the Social Welfare Appeals Office and the Department. We have raised this before in our deliberations around the bogus self-employed. Scope makes a decision and then an employer or a worker can appeal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: -----to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is not employed by the Department, is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: That is a good clarification. We need to look at that. There is a failure there. As Mr. McMahon said, once the appeal comes through from the employer, then everything that Scope decided on and all the information it got is just dead in the water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. McMahon. The other question I wanted to ask was about the classification and an employer classifying an employee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Is that an area where it can be-----

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Private Members' motion which has prompted this discussion. As has been said, a number of different Private Member's motions have been tabled on this issue recently. The last one was in March of this year when myself and my Independents 4 Change colleagues tabled a motion with the backing of CityWide which was concerned at the direction in which the drugs task forces were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: My question is for the ICGP. I was on the Sláintecare committee and we discussed GP accessibility and the number of GPs relative to the population, which has been affected by austerity. It means the most vulnerable people are left at the end of the queue. My own partner had to wait a week and a half for an appointment in the primary healthcare unit in our area. This affects certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Ms O'Donoghue is saying she has four part-time equivalents for two full-time jobs. What does her community need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: That is what we need to consider.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: All of us, as well as the workers and trade unions in Dublin Bus, are working to get a public transport system that has the right network and frequency. I am concerned about people having to walk distances to get to spine services, particularly people with a disability or who have lung illnesses, problems with walking or issues with their hips or backs. At 50,000 people, this must be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Is Mr. Creegan saying the NTA is looking at providing park-and-ride services at the outer end of spines? Is he saying there will be park-and-ride services but that the NTA will not run them, that they will be contracted out or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: That makes sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I apologise but I have to go.

Dublin Mid-West By-election: Issue of Writ (7 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Clare Daly and Mick Wallace for their contributions in the Dáil since 2014. They were effective, diligent and determined on every issue in which they intervened. Everybody will agree that their political presence and tenacity is sorely missed in the Dáil and in Irish politics. They will bring the same political pressure and tenacity in Europe. Like others, I would...

Wexford By-election: Issue of Writ (7 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I move: That the Ceann Comhairle direct the Clerk of the Dáil to issue his writ for the election of a Member to fill the vacancy which has occurred in the membership of the present Dáil consequent on the election to the European Parliament of Mick Wallace, a member for the constituency of Wexford.

Topical Issue Debate: Passport Applications (7 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise the issue of the granting of a passport for Sofia, the child of Sinéad Deevy and Kashka Sankowska. This is in light of the fact that the Children and Family Relationships Bill has not been fully enacted, leaving Sofia effectively stateless and unable to travel home to Dublin. Both Ireland and Poland have refused to acknowledge the existence of Sinéad's and...